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Diabetes Blog Week prompt for Friday: Lets wrap up the week by sharing a little more about ourselves, beyond the chronic illness we or our loved ones live with. Share an interest, hobby, passion, something that is YOU. If you want to explore how it relates to or helps with diabetes you can. Or let it be a part…

The Other Half of Diabetes: We think a lot about the physical component of diabetes, but the mental component is just as significant. How does diabetes affect you or your loved one mentally or emotionally? How have you learned to deal with the mental aspect of the condition? Any tips, positive phrases, mantras, or ideas to share on getting out…

It’s Diabetes Blog Week, a week in the year where diabetes bloggers can rally together and share their stories, following suggested (but not mandated!) themes and focusing on connecting with one another as a community. And who better to closely knit our community together than Karen (who is known in my household as “The Knitter“)? Karen kindly brings us closer…

I missed the end of Diabetes Blog Week, but I loved the prompts and still have ideas trickling in here and there. So better late than never! I don’t like catch phrases. (Forgiiiiiiiive me, especially since I just used a trite turn of phrase up there with the whole “better late than never” thing. Turn the other cheek, please.) I…

When I was first hospitalized upon diagnosis, I spent two weeks in-patient learning the new and tangled ropes of type 1 diabetes with my parents. My hospital roommate was a kid named Eddie, who had been bitten by a spider. The other source of comfort was Kitty. This grubby thing has been with me since the beginning. My mom and…

Feels weird, and slightly ironic, starting a blog post about the diabetes-related things I don’t share here on the diabetes blog I’ve written here on the open Internet about my personal experiences with the disease. It’s been ten years of this – the idea that there’s crap I don’t talk about might seem like a big fat lie. But there…

Decades ago, my body did whatever it did to reroute the purpose of my pancreas, and left me with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes at the age of seven. As a result, I can’t make insulin. Diabetes was presented as a series of “You can’ts” to me, back in 1986. You can’t eat that, you can’t do that, you…

Karen Graffeo is a talented knitter, devoted cat owner, and tireless advocate for diabetes, and I am so proud to call her a friend. Six years ago, she launched the first Diabetes Blog Week, an effort that serves to expand the diabetes online community and embrace the beauty of diversity of voices. Today, Karen is sharing some of the how’s…

Mantras and sayings aren’t really my thing, but if I had to tie my boat to one tagline, diabetes-wise, it would be this one: But most things like this give me a Pinterest rash, because it all seems to sound like: When I need an emotional lift, I turn to my friends, family, and DOC (which is an amalgam of…

My reasons for sharing my story of a life with type 1 diabetes were few, but definitive: I felt alone. I wanted to feel less alone, because the whole “feeling alone” thing was wrecking some havoc on my emotional health. I didn’t have many peers, in my life, who were living with diabetes, and the Internet offered very little in…

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